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Golden Globe Nominated "Everlasting Moments" to Screen in Sedona
Sweden's Oscar entry for the Best Foreign Language Film by 4-time Academy Award nominee Jan Troell makes Arizona premiere in festival's "Best of Fest" series
“Everlasting Moments” by four-time Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell debuts in Arizona on Tuesday, Aug. 4 in Sedona. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Arizona premiere of this award-winning drama as the fourth film in its seven-week “Best of Fest” series. There will be two screenings of the film at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres.
The Golden Globe nominated “Everlasting Moments” has achieved overwhelming critical acclaim around the globe and has won numerous awards at prestigious film festivals worldwide, including the Toronto, Telluride, AFI and Palm Springs festivals. It was Sweden’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award and won five Guldbagge Awards (Sweden’s Academy Awards) in its native land.
Four-time Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell wrote and directed this visually stunning, dramatically brilliant masterpiece that critics are calling a “rare and rich cinematic experience.” Troell has been nominated three times for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (The Emigrants, The New Land and The Flight of the Eagle) and once for Best Director (The Emigrants). Critics are applauding “Everlasting Moments” as Troell’s best work of his distinguished career.
Sweden in the early 1900s was a time of social change, unrest, war and poverty. Maria, a young working-class mother, wins a camera in a lottery. Her first impulse is to sell it for grocery money but instead decides to keep it, changing her whole life. Maria is married to Sigfrid Larsson, an unskilled laborer, hard worker, lothario and alcoholic.
In an attempt to sell the camera, Maria meets photographer Sebastian Pedersen, also known as “Piff Paff Puff," who persuades her to use the camera, at least once, before selling it. Pedersen teaches her the fine art of photography and Maria sees the world through new eyes while “Piff Paff Puff” sees Maria as the beautiful, talented woman she is.
Maria and her family are weighed down with poverty and hard work. But in the evenings while Sigfrid sleeps off drunkenness and the children are tucked into bed, Maria develops her pictures in the kitchen. Neighbors, potted plants, the children in the yard and the cat — all become vibrant and immortalized in her photographs. Maria’s pictures begin to narrate the reality in which she lives. She documents poverty, change, the joys of life and the outbreak of war, as well as a whole society undergoing transformation.
Her photography and her relationship to "Piff Paff Puff" open a possible path of freedom and independence to Maria while also posing a challenge and threat to Sigfrid. Still, the camera and "Piff Paff Puff," give Maria new strength and arouse a longing in her that Sigfrid cannot stop. Violent arguments threaten to split the family but also present opportunities for the family to grow stronger and develop.
“Everlasting Moments” is an account of the great and fascinating fate of a woman in the first decade of the Twentieth Century: a time on the verge of being shaken into massive change. It is a chronicle of people with an impressive capacity to survive through the infinite gift of invention and problem solving without bitterness and the ability to enjoy everyday of life.
“ ‘Every film is my last,’ Ingmar Bergman once wrote in his 40s. A good work ethic, I think, because at almost twice that age, these words have assumed even greater relevance for me,” said writer/director Troell. “At my age, a person must choose very carefully how to spend the last vestiges of his time and energy as an active filmmaker. His hand must be turned to something quite extraordinary.”
For Troell, that “extraordinary” was “Everlasting Moments” which is based on a true story.
“ ‘Everlasting Moments’ is the result of an involvement that began as far back as 1986 when my wife, Agneta, met Maja, eldest daughter of Maria, the film’s central character,” said Troell. “Agneta realized this could become a marvelous book and interviewed Maja up to her death at the ripe old age of 92.”
“I, too, realized this was unique material about life in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century. The description of the importance of photography really gripped me, as I have been a devotee of still photography since the tender age of 14. The fantastic Fellini-like gallery of characters also fascinated me, so did the social perspective.”
“ ‘Everlasting Moments’ is the work of a master, who draws marvelously subtle performances in which the truth of a given character lies not in what is said aloud but in what is held within,” said Chuck Wilson from LA Weekly. The Hollywood Reporter says “Everlasting Moments” is “a beautifully-performed, highly personal film that condenses an epic scope into a series of singularly poignant images.” A.O. Scott from the New York Times calls the film “Engrossing and satisfying. Full of character, it is balanced by delicacy, humor, and a sense of innocence.”
The title sponsor for the event is Hansen Lightworks. The supporting sponsor is Vora Financial. The series is also made possible by grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Sedona.
“Everlasting Moments” will be shown at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres on Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $10, or $8 for Film Sedona members, and will be available starting at 3:00 p.m. that day in the Harkins lobby. Cash or checks only. Film Sedona members can purchase tickets in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office, 1785 W. Hwy. 89A, Suite 2B, or by calling 282-1177.
For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.com.
“Everlasting Moments” by four-time Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell debuts in Arizona on Tuesday, Aug. 4 in Sedona. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Arizona premiere of this award-winning drama as the fourth film in its seven-week “Best of Fest” series. There will be two screenings of the film at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres.
The Golden Globe nominated “Everlasting Moments” has achieved overwhelming critical acclaim around the globe and has won numerous awards at prestigious film festivals worldwide, including the Toronto, Telluride, AFI and Palm Springs festivals. It was Sweden’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award and won five Guldbagge Awards (Sweden’s Academy Awards) in its native land.
Four-time Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell wrote and directed this visually stunning, dramatically brilliant masterpiece that critics are calling a “rare and rich cinematic experience.” Troell has been nominated three times for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (The Emigrants, The New Land and The Flight of the Eagle) and once for Best Director (The Emigrants). Critics are applauding “Everlasting Moments” as Troell’s best work of his distinguished career.
Sweden in the early 1900s was a time of social change, unrest, war and poverty. Maria, a young working-class mother, wins a camera in a lottery. Her first impulse is to sell it for grocery money but instead decides to keep it, changing her whole life. Maria is married to Sigfrid Larsson, an unskilled laborer, hard worker, lothario and alcoholic.
In an attempt to sell the camera, Maria meets photographer Sebastian Pedersen, also known as “Piff Paff Puff," who persuades her to use the camera, at least once, before selling it. Pedersen teaches her the fine art of photography and Maria sees the world through new eyes while “Piff Paff Puff” sees Maria as the beautiful, talented woman she is.
Maria and her family are weighed down with poverty and hard work. But in the evenings while Sigfrid sleeps off drunkenness and the children are tucked into bed, Maria develops her pictures in the kitchen. Neighbors, potted plants, the children in the yard and the cat — all become vibrant and immortalized in her photographs. Maria’s pictures begin to narrate the reality in which she lives. She documents poverty, change, the joys of life and the outbreak of war, as well as a whole society undergoing transformation.
Her photography and her relationship to "Piff Paff Puff" open a possible path of freedom and independence to Maria while also posing a challenge and threat to Sigfrid. Still, the camera and "Piff Paff Puff," give Maria new strength and arouse a longing in her that Sigfrid cannot stop. Violent arguments threaten to split the family but also present opportunities for the family to grow stronger and develop.
“Everlasting Moments” is an account of the great and fascinating fate of a woman in the first decade of the Twentieth Century: a time on the verge of being shaken into massive change. It is a chronicle of people with an impressive capacity to survive through the infinite gift of invention and problem solving without bitterness and the ability to enjoy everyday of life.
“ ‘Every film is my last,’ Ingmar Bergman once wrote in his 40s. A good work ethic, I think, because at almost twice that age, these words have assumed even greater relevance for me,” said writer/director Troell. “At my age, a person must choose very carefully how to spend the last vestiges of his time and energy as an active filmmaker. His hand must be turned to something quite extraordinary.”
For Troell, that “extraordinary” was “Everlasting Moments” which is based on a true story.
“ ‘Everlasting Moments’ is the result of an involvement that began as far back as 1986 when my wife, Agneta, met Maja, eldest daughter of Maria, the film’s central character,” said Troell. “Agneta realized this could become a marvelous book and interviewed Maja up to her death at the ripe old age of 92.”
“I, too, realized this was unique material about life in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century. The description of the importance of photography really gripped me, as I have been a devotee of still photography since the tender age of 14. The fantastic Fellini-like gallery of characters also fascinated me, so did the social perspective.”
“ ‘Everlasting Moments’ is the work of a master, who draws marvelously subtle performances in which the truth of a given character lies not in what is said aloud but in what is held within,” said Chuck Wilson from LA Weekly. The Hollywood Reporter says “Everlasting Moments” is “a beautifully-performed, highly personal film that condenses an epic scope into a series of singularly poignant images.” A.O. Scott from the New York Times calls the film “Engrossing and satisfying. Full of character, it is balanced by delicacy, humor, and a sense of innocence.”
The title sponsor for the event is Hansen Lightworks. The supporting sponsor is Vora Financial. The series is also made possible by grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Sedona.
“Everlasting Moments” will be shown at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres on Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $10, or $8 for Film Sedona members, and will be available starting at 3:00 p.m. that day in the Harkins lobby. Cash or checks only. Film Sedona members can purchase tickets in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office, 1785 W. Hwy. 89A, Suite 2B, or by calling 282-1177.
For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.com.
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